Financial Analyst

Senior Real Estate Investment Analyst

Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap is a premier commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research, and advisory services. With a national platform spanning 80+ offices across the U.S. and Canada, the firm completed over 8,800 transactions in 2025, with $50.8 billion in sales volume. Our mission is to help our clients create and preserve wealth through exceptional real estate investment expertise and service.

This is an opportunity to join an award-winning senior investment sales team with significant opportunities for growth within one of the nation's largest commercial real estate investment brokerages. This role will support one of the firm's top-producing teams, delivering institutional-caliber investment analysis and valuations for high-profile commercial real estate assets. This role offers a unique opportunity to work directly with senior leadership on complex real estate investment opportunities and sophisticated financial modeling in one of the most competitive commercial real estate markets in the country. The Senior Real Estate Investment Analyst will lead financial analysis and underwriting for the team's active deal pipeline across a wide range of commercial real estate investment opportunities and will be responsible for producing institutional-quality financial models and valuation analyses that support pricing strategy, client advisory, marketing initiatives, and high-value transaction execution. This position is supporting an agent team.

The hourly range for this role is $30.00– $40.00 per hour. Actual pay will be determined by factors such as education, experience, and job-related skills relevant to the role. Marcus & Millichap is a multi-state employer and posted salary ranges are provided in good faith for compliance with all relevant pay-transparency regulations. These ranges may not reflect potential compensation for positions based in other states or regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial underwriting and investment analysis across all properties within the team's deal pipeline, including cash flow modeling, IRR analysis, cap rate analysis, comparable sales analysis, owner-user analysis, land residual analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
• Review and analyze property financial statements, leases, and supporting documentation to determine appropriate underwriting assumptions, modeling approach, scope of analysis, and timing of financial deliverables.
• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models for single and multi-tenant retail, office, mixed-use, and redevelopment opportunities.
• Analyze comparable sales, lease data, market trends, and pricing dynamics across Southern California to support valuation and underwriting assumptions.
• Organize and present analytical findings, draw objective conclusions, and recommend appropriate modeling parameters and assumptions.
• Prepare investment memorandums, marketing copy, financial analyses, and investor presentation materials.
• Maintain underwriting consistency and quality control across all financial deliverables.

Qualifications:

• 3–7+ years of experience in commercial real estate financial analysis
• Advanced proficiency in Excel financial modeling, Argus, and CoStar
• Strong understanding of real estate valuation metrics, including IRR, NPV, cap rates, and DSCR
• Experience analyzing retail, office, mixed-use, and land development opportunities
• Ability to interpret property financial statements, leases, and market data to support investment underwriting and valuation analysis
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines simultaneously
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and complete projects on time with accuracy
• Strong understanding of zoning regulations and municipal ordinances to support financial modeling for development sites and detailed land residual analysis
• Self-motivated, team-oriented and capable of handling several tasks simultaneously.

Why Join Our Team

• Work on high-profile commercial real estate opportunities across Southern California
• Direct exposure to sophisticated private investors, family offices, and institutional capital
• Join one of Marcus & Millichap's top-producing investment sales teams
• Highly entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment with significant opportunity for professional growth
• Competitive compensation and performance-based incentives

At Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation, we strive to be the best place to work and to be the best commercial real estate financial intermediary. Our valued employees help make this vision a reality by consistently working to exceed the expectations of our clients.

Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation is the real estate capital markets platform of Marcus & Millichap, Inc. With over 200 employees in offices across the United States and Canada, the Company provides commercial real estate capital markets financing solutions including debt and mezzanine financing, preferred and joint venture equity, sponsor equity and loan sales. The Company averages over 2,000 closed transactions annually.

Marcus & Millichap revolutionized the real estate brokerage industry. The firm was designed to go far beyond simply facilitating real estate transactions. It was developed as an entire system dedicated to maximizing value for real estate investors.

In 1971, founders George Marcus and William Millichap launched a new real estate investment business model based on a unique method of matching each property with the largest pool of pre-qualified investors. This simple premise, coupled with an unfailing drive to measure success by client satisfaction, enabled the company to emerge as the industry's pre-eminent real estate investment services firm.

The founders' vision has been realized by a commitment to specialization, the willingness to foster a culture of information sharing and the foresight to pioneer real estate technology. Today, Marcus & Millichap is the industry's largest firm specializing in real estate investment sales, financing, loan sales as well as a leading source of research and advisory services.

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable human rights legislation. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.